This afternoon.

Meanwhile….

Dionne Gesink, a professor of epidemiology at University of Toronto’s Dalla Lana School of Public Health recommends daters be selective about meeting up with potential paramours.

However, Gesink advises against subjecting matches to a pre-date intake form of personal health questions. Rather, she encourages people to broach conversations about COVID-19 prevention and vaccination as part of the “getting to know you” process.

“You might want to approach it from a more philosophical view of, where do you stand on this stuff,” she says. “That will give you a lot more information … and a better sense of the person.”

‘Vaxxed and waxed, baby!’: Summer heats up for single-dosed singles (Toronto Star)

The votes are in.

Last month, we asked for your most memorable whiskey experience.

On offer was a free Tasting for FOUR people at Teeling Whiskey Distillery in  Dublin’s Newmarket plus a handcrafted Teeling Cocktail to enjoy afterwards (worth 100 big ones in total).

There could be only one winner.

Third Place:

Zaccone writes:

‘During the 2018 February/March snow in Ireland I was calling in on a couple of elderly neighbours to check in on them, make sure they had groceries etc. Two of the oul lads who lived next door to each other ended up inviting me in for a drink with them. I ended up completely unexpectedly drinking whiskey all afternoon in front of an open fire, looking out at the snow, hearing all about the long, interesting, lives these two guys had lived.

They’re both dead now unfortunately, but it was an unforgettable experience that will stick with me for the rest of my life. And the whiskey was definitely a huge part of it – I doubt I would have heard half as interesting stories from them without it.’

Runner up:

Scottser writes:

‘Jamming with the lads over New Year’s one time turned into a late night early morning weed n beer session. Beer ran out so out came the whiskey until 5 am and instead of calling in sick, I decide to go to work. The singer drove me to the airport after I gave him a punch in the jaw and I was duly delivered to the job in a pukey heap at the front door with my uniform under me arm. The singer took off the wrong way round the airport one way system, ended up being chased by the airport cops and crashed his car on the old airport road. I was sacked next day.’

Winner:

alickdouglas writes:

‘Over 20 years ago I was coordinating a research project in a far distant land and we got to know some of the locals reasonably well. One day my translator accidentally got us invited to some local religious festival at 10 in the morning, that involved the men of the village going from house to house, drinking home made hooch. We were picked up about early in the circuit and ended up visiting something like 10 houses. Each time, it was a brisk, mysterious ceremony and then a shot of hooch and off to the next place. Finally, ended up in the local ‘chief’s house’, The 20 or so of us sat in this big circle, and the chap to my left poured this huge glass of whiskey, took a mouthful and passed it to his left, each person doing the same. It dawned on me I was going to be the last one, and followed the glass round with my eyes. Finally it got to the chap to my right, and he looked at me with a big smile: I saw he had no teeth, and some mysterious ulcery-looking marks around his mouth. He took a slurp and handed it to me. I was a fair few sheets to the wind, but had the presence of mind to pour the booze into my mouth without letting the glass touch my lips. I have a somewhat hazy memory of myself and the translator dashing back to our lodging and cracking open my emergency bottle of Jameson and vigorously gargling it. I still have all my teeth.’

Thanks all.

Previously: A Lovely Teeling Came O’er me Stealing

Teeling Whiskey Distillery

Jacob Long and Jack Brennan of cheese-based, lockdown start-up Griolladh, now in five locations

This morning.

Sinead writes:

Jacob Long and Jack Brennan, the founders of grilled cheese go-to Griolladh, will celebrate the success of their lockdown start up with a charity walk in aid of The Capuchin Day Centre for Homeless People.

This Saturday (June 19), Jacob and Jack will start off from Griolladh in Bray at 8am and walk 45k to Malahide, where they opened their first Griolladh food truck exactly one year ago.

Donations are welcome at link below. A percentage of Griolladh sales that week will be donated, and Griolladh will also match the amounts donated in the collection boxes at each of their 5 locations!

Griolladh Fundraising

They’ve gone too far this time.

FIGHT!

From analysing TDs’ expenses to digging the dirt on rivals, a look inside the Sinn Féin electoral toolkit (Philip Ryan, Indpendent,ie)

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